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Key terms are those which cover complex biodiversity topics which warrant more detailed discussion to explain the definition and its significance to conservation practice and sustainable development.

A
- AIS
- Alien invasive species (AIS)
- Anthropocene
- AoI
- Area of Influence (AoI)
B
- Baseline condition
- Baseline period
- Biodiversity
- Biodiversity accounting
- Biodiversity-based products
- Biodiversity credits
- Biodiversity footprint
- Biodiversity Indicators for Site-based Impacts (BISI)
- Biome
- BISI
- Blockchain
- BNG
- Brownfield Site
C
- Carbon offsets
- Complementary indicator
- Conservation easement
- Conservation hierarchy
- Critical habitat
- Customary sustainable use 
D
- Degraded ecosystems
- Dependencies
- Disclose
E
- Ecosystem
- Ecosystem accounting
- Ecosystem approach
- Ecosystem asset
- Ecosystem condition
- Ecosystem function
- Ecosystem health
- Ecosystem integrity
- eDNA
- Endangered species
- Environmental asset
- Environmental DNA (eDNA)
- Environmental human rights defender
- Environmental human rights defender
- Environmental incentives
- Ex-situ conservation
F
- Financial flows are aligned with biodiversity values
- Financial resources from all sources
- Financing gap
- Fishery 
- Free, prior and informed consent
G
- Gender-responsive
- Genetic resources
- Green and blue spaces
- Greenfield Site
- Greenwashing
H
- Habitat
- Harvest 
- Headline indicators
- Healthy and resilient populations
- Horizon scanning, monitoring and assessing for synthetic biology
- Human-wildlife conflict
I
- Impacts on biodiversity
- In-situ conservation
- International instruments
J
K
L
- Land and sea areas
- Land and sea areas
- Land-use change
- Living modified organism (LMO)
- LMO
M
- Means of implementation
- Migratory species
- Mother Earth Centered Actions
N
- Biodiversity net gain (BNG)
- Natural Climate Solutions (NCS)
- Nature
- Nature-based solutions (NbS)
- Nature loss
- Nature-related opportunities
- Nature-related risks
- NCS
- Net positive impact (NPI)
- Not harmful (to biodiversity and ecosystem function)
O
- One Health
P
- People’s needs
- Pesticides
- Pollution
- Production sectors
- Protected area
Q
R
- Rate of extinction
- Recovery
- Reference reporting period
- Resilience
- Risk of extinction
S
- SBTN
- Science Based Targets Network (SBTN)
- Seascape
- Sea-use change
- Soil health
- Spatial planning 
- Species
- Species Threat Abatement and Restoration Metric (STAR)
- STAR
- Strategic environmental assessment
- Subsidies
- Sustainable agriculture and aquaculture
- Sustainable development
- Sustainable forestry (management)
- Sustainable, legal, and safe for human health
- Sustainable use
- Swimway
T
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
- The Align project
- TNFD
U
- United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
V
- Value systems
- Vulnerability
W
- Wild species
X
Y
Z
- Zoonosis